North Korea unveils new uranium enrichment plant by Zuzana Zelenakova

The United States have considered North Korea a threat for years now given the country´s nuclear efforts. However, this time Washington has more reasons to be worried than ever. North Korea has just revealed new nuclear facility that could considerably speed up the country´s delivery of nuclear weapons. The uranium enrichment plant has been called a “provocative act of defiance” by one of US administration officials. "This validates a long-standing concern that we've had with respect to North Korea and its enrichment of uranium,“ he said. The facility has been visited by US scientist Siegfried Hecker, a former director of Los Alamos Nuclear Labo! ratory, who is more than familiar with North Korea´s nuclear program as he gets to witness its progress on regular bases. According to his report, released by New York Times, the new facility is highly sophisticated. Reportedly, he saw “hundreds and hundreds” of newly installed centrifuges operated from “an ultra-modern control room”. The plant is not producing plutonium needed for a bomb, however, it does produce low-enriched uranium for new reactor that could be trasformed. Moreover, the international community is worried that North Korea could sell its technology to terrorist oranizations. "From my perspective, it's North Korea continuing on a path which is destabilizing for the region. It confirms or validates the concern we've had for years about their enriching uranium, which they've denied routinely," said top US military officer Mike Mullen. "They are a country that routinely we are unable to believe that they would do what they say." Mu! llen also reminded of an tragic insident from march, when Nort! h Korea sank South Korean warship Cheonan killing 46 sailors. "All of this is consistent with belligerent behavior, the kind of instability-creation in a part of the world that is very dangerous," he said on CNN.

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